Real estate agency fees: an online simulator to find out how much you have to pay

MIL OSI Translation. Government of the Republic of France statements from English to French – Credits: © DigiClack – Fotolia.com

You are looking for a rental (empty or furnished) and you go through a real estate agency? Do you know that Service-public.fr offers an online simulator to calculate the amount of agency fees?

Agency agency fees charged to the tenant can not exceed both:

the amount billed to the lessor; and a ceiling that varies according to the geographical area where the dwelling is located (very tense zone, tense zone and rest of the territory).

Simply indicate, on the rental charge calculator attributable to the tenant , the postal code of the municipality where the accommodation is located.

The result obtained gives you the maximum price per m² of living space that can be requested from the tenant to pay for the services of the real estate agent when renting housing, services that include the visit of housing, the constitution of the file of the tenant and the drafting of the lease contract.

Attention, the costs related to the inventory, subject to other calculation rules, are not taken into account by this simulator.

To know :

The remaining agency fees are borne by the lessor.

Recall :

Living space refers to the floor space deducted from walls, partitions, steps and staircases, ducts, door and window embrasures, spaces whose height is less than 1.80 meters …

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